Our source close to Sony confirms that he indeed knows the face of patent belligerence all to well, saying he's been called on as an expert to testify in several cases. He remarks, "A lot of those [lawsuits] have been pretty frivolous."

When asked specifically about Microsoft and Apple and how Sony has escaped lawsuits (or licensing demands) he said, "We've had a number of discussions... We've been pretty successful at fending off these onslaughts... [laughs] I guess we should give credit to our lawyers."

So there you have it; the electronics industry has devolved into how good a lawyer team is.

Sony for its part must have some pretty good lawyers. After all, its latest and greatest Xperia phones have slide to unlock graphics (which other Android phonemakers have been sued over) and also have a "Cover Flow"-like transition animation (Apple owns a patent on Cover Flow's animations).

With its new "superphones" hitting the product stream, the phonemaker's remarkable ability to ward off Apple lawsuits may boost its profitability and sales, assuming that situation does not somehow shift.

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quote: not quite - for example, imagine calling a person from a mediterranean country e.g. greece or spain and labelling them as english or swedish.

And its entirely plausible that that happens. Certainly possible for people to confuse Portuguese and Spanish, or even Italian. How about Eastern Europe? Do people really expect that their country of origin must be immediately identifiable by sight by people with little contact with people from their country? Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Ukranian, etc. Everyone in the former Soviet Union would be identified as Russian by most people around the world.

So my point was, it's ridiculous to say that is racism to not know where someone is from or what language they are speaking/writing.

quote: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Ukranian, etc. Everyone in the former Soviet Union would be identified as Russian by most people around the world.

Let's clarify those two sentences as separate thoughts:

Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Polish, Ukranian, etc. Can eveyone around the world differentiate these people and their languages and identify them by their country of origin? And I'm sure everyone from a country in the former Soviet Union would probably be identified as Russian by most people around the world.